Murphy v. Thomas

1. The mother of an illegitimate child is entitled to file objections to a petition brought by the putative father to legitimate and to deny the application for legitimation (Henderson v. Shifflett, *688105 Ga. 303, 31 S. E. 186); and, since the gist of the mother’s objections to the father’s petition to legitimate the child is that he has no paternal interest in the child, but seeks only to deprive her of the child by delivering the child into the custody of his (the putative father’s) mother and father, which if true would authorize the trial court in the exercise of its discretion to find…